Anodyne
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
 

Oriented strand board (Wikipedia)

Choosing Between Oriented Strandboard (OSB) and Plywood

OSB Prices and Industry Consolidation


Current OSB producers:

Ainsworth Lumber Company Limited
Boise Cascade Holdings LLC
Canfor Corporation
Collins Companies Incorporated
Columbia Forest Products
Flakeboard Company Limited
Grant Forest Products Incorporated
Great Lakes MDF LLC
Hood Companies
Hoover Treated Wood Products Incorporated
Huber (JM) Corporation
Hunt Forest Products Incorporated
International Paper Company
Knight-Celotex LLC
Koch Industries Incorporated
Langboard Incorporated
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
Martin (Roy O.) Lumber Management LLC
Norbord Incorporated
Plum Creek Timber Company Incorporated
Potlatch Corporation
Roseburg Forest Products Company
SierraPine Limited
Stimson Lumber Company Incorporated
Temple-Inland Incorporated
Timber Products Company
Tolko Industries Limited
Weyerhaeuser Company

An interesting (and potentially profitable) exercise for the new year: calculate the current market share of each participant above, the sustainability of that share, and predict the eventual members of the oligopoly described by the second article above.


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